OpenShot Video Editor

OpenShot Video Editor is an open-source Linux program that creates, modifies, and edits video files.

Features:

• Support for many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg)
• Gnome integration (drag and drop support)
• Multiple tracks
• Clip resizing, trimming, snapping, and cutting
• Video transitions with real-time previews
• Compositing, image overlays, watermarks
• Title templates, title creation
• SVG friendly, to create and include titles and credits
• Scrolling motion picture credits
• Solid color clips (including alpha compositing)
• Support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences
• Drag and drop timeline
• Frame stepping, key-mappings: J,K, and L keys
• Video encoding (based on FFmpeg)
• Key Frame animation
• Digital zooming of video clips
• Speed changes on clips (slow motion etc)
• Custom transition lumas and masks
• Re-sizing of clips (frame size)
• Audio mixing and editing
• Presets for key frame animations and layout
• Ken Burns effect (making video by panning over an image)

• Release Date: Mar 22, 2019
• openshot-qt
  • Bump version to 2.4.4 (minimum libopenshot to 0.2.3)
  • Scale keyframe coordinates when changing Profile or Exporting using a different FPS (#2620)
  • Large performance improvements on AngularJS Timeline (and solved some Async issues) (#2533)
  • Integration of resvg SVG library (gitlab and freeze updates) (#2540)
  • Improved Tracks (simpler numbering, faster inserting, prevent deletion of locked tracks) (#2491)
  • Improved Docking (Timeline widget is now dockable and Properties works in pillar mode) (#2490)
  • Windows Installer: Remove invalid files (system32/zlib1.dll) (#2678)
  • Use libopenshot to generate preview images for our Title editor, and no longer use Qt's SVG parsing by default. (#2544)
  • Improving UTF-8 path detection and conversion (#2525)
  • Rewrite conversion of relative and absolute path support in OpenShot (#2477)
  • Fixing many Python issues reported in our automatic exception tracking (#2482)
  • Fixing Various Breakages in our Release Testing Plan (#2669)
  • Fixing regressions to Split Audio (#2660)
  • Integrate Constant Rate Factor (CRF) into Export Dialog (#2543)
  • Separating PrepareStreams() from Open(), to allow SetOption() to correctly function (#2568)
  • Adding h265 export preset (thanks Peter) (#2680)
  • Adding ~/.openshot_qt/presets/ User-defined Presets, so users can easily install custom export presets (devices and formats) (#2555)
  • Dragging an OSP file into the Project Files widget will open the entire project file (and prompt to save unsaved changes) (#2616)
  • Persist undo/redo history correctly across OpenShot sessions (#2474)
  • Fix audio waveform display when slicing clips or resizing/trimming clips
  • Color picker: Never use native dialog (#2425)
  • Adding Git Changelog screen (#2566)
  • Converting to new Settings class, instead of the old ENV VAR method (#2520)
  • Reverting Angular from 1.7.2 to 1.6.0 (for stability reasons) (#2479)
  • Updating GitHub Templates (for bug report, question, and feature request) (#2608)
  • Updating GitHub README: features list, translation urls, and badges (#2597)
  • Completed Arabic, Hindi, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) translations (#2594)
  • Update messaging integration on build server (#2426)
  • Add __init__.py file for installed module (#2419)
  • launch.py: Path-detect via openshot_qt init (#2419)
  • Exit using sys.exit() (#2409)
  • preferences: Tweak item layout (#2401)
  • Widen export window (#2373)
  • Pass remaining command line args to Qt (#2355)
  • Copy (cleaned up) xdg icon to src/images (#2316)
  • Add strings to be translated and fix tuple error (#2275)
  • added browse button in file properties dialog, to allow relinking of individual media files (#2275)
  • fix for automatic relinking of missing media files during project open (#2275)
  • Add the same browse type for inkscape and blender field (#2255)
  • Remove CRLF line endings from chromebook preset (#2204)
  • Convert `language.py` line endings (#2204)
  • Missing files are now automatically deleted from the recent menu (#2202)
  • Append correct extension to snapshot frames (#2196)
  • Simplify version number and file name logic in build server (especially for releases) (#2136)
  • Update Contributors & Translations (#2679)
  libopenshot
  • Bumping version to 0.2.3 (SO 17)
  • Integration of resvg SVG library (optional during build) (#185)
  • Improved Keyframe Performance (#197)
  • MP3 Special Handling & Missing Frame Refactor (#196)
  • Fix default sizes on readers without MAX_WIDTH and MAX_HEIGHT settings (#188)
  • Adding new settings class to be used for changing realtime settings used by libopenshot, such as scaling mode for preview vs final render, or hardware decode, etc... (#183)
  • Integrate Constant Rate Factor (CRF) for FFmpegWriter (#186)
  • Improving cache performance by preventing the cache from getting behind the currently displaying frame # (#179)
  • Set video bit rate to 0 if an invalid bit rate detected (which happens when using crf) (#191)
  • Invalid SetMaxSize Logic and Invalid CRF q settings in FFmpegWriter (#198)
  • Refactor FFmpegWriter Open() and PrepareStreams() methods, so that SetOption() can be called between them. (#193)
  • Some polishing for the cmake ReSVG discovery (#187)
  • Adding condition before calling av_frame_free (in AV_FREE_FRAME macro) (#184)
  • tests/CMakeLists: Use same dependencies as src/ (#163)
  • Remove Eclipse files and add to gitignore (#178)
  • Fixing Scale Mode (None) in previews (#182)
  • Exclude git tags from kicking off GitLab builds (for libopenshot)
  • Update readme to use markdown and update copyright to 2019 (#94)
  • Update README and INSTALL files (including build instructions) (#194)
  • Add git log file with commits up to the previous release (#192)
  libopenshot-audio
  • Bumping version to 0.1.8 (SO remains 6)
  • Create README.md, INSTALL.md, INSTALL-WINDOWS.md, INSTALL-MAC.md, INSTALL-LINUX.md (#32)
  • Adding git log to build artifacts (since last release tag) (#31)
  • Exclude git tags from kicking off GitLab builds (for libopenshot-audio) (#26)